Middle
East expert and senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Arutz Sheva weekly columnist Dr. Mordechai Kedar says
that the Palestinian Authority is losing support in the Arab world, claiming
that former allies are growing “sick of the Palestinians,” as they find support
for PA efforts against Israel contrary to their national self-interest.

Interviewed
by Channel 20, Kedar says
that the Arab world is increasingly impressed by “Israel’s internal stability,
its democracy - which even allows all sorts of thugs to say they don’t want to
enlist - and the fact that Israel is comprised 20% of Arabs, and not one of
them is fleeing. They even know that the Palestinians, who live under Israeli
‘occupation,’ live much better than all the other Arabs in the Middle East.
They understand that Israel is something that doesn’t mesh with what they were
taught about it - it is something different.”

And, of course, the Arab world’s protestations of President
Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem a Israel’s capital were, as I suggested, so
much theatre:

Kedar
explained that the Arab world was growing annoyed with PA efforts against
Israel in light of US President Donald Trump’s recognition
of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

“What
happened was that Trump
warned that he would stop funding countries that voted against the
US - in Egypt, nobody wants to lose their food just because the Palestinians
want Jerusalem. Therefore, in this matter the Palestinians have succeeded in
annoying many Arabs in the Middle East, to the extent that people say, ‘Why do
we have to be held captive by the Palestinians in the peace process with
Israel? If it’s in our interest to have peace with Israel, let’s get on with
it, and let the Palestinians break their backs with Israel.’